Has the 1 week downtime & move to vanilla killed this place?

Lol

I don’t like the changes at all, I doubt many users would see it as an improvement. Which begs the question, why do it?

While I like the odd visit on reddit and like some of the subs r/Ireland is just to general, it's like someone abandoned a telex machine and came back to reams of stuff. Or am I missing something, is there sub subs?

It would help if the people behind boards gave us more feedback as to what is going on. I'm sure the stress levels at Boards HQ are going through the roof at the moment but keeping people in the loop about what is happening would defuse some of this. At the moment we don't know what, if anything, they're trying to fix. Maybe they're happy with what they're presenting to us and that the existing user interface is what we're stuck with. Stop hiding, guys.

I deal with software design and releases for a living and I just can't understand how we got here. There is a lot of missing functionality between the previous version and the current version, which itself is a big red flag, but also once they realised the release / migration wouldn't be done in the allocated time, they should have accepted their losses, rolled back, and organised a future date to try again.

Maybe a lot of the problem is going with Vanilla. I don't anything about them I wish Boards had gone with Invision instead. I use a couple of forums that use that software that it is pretty much the Rolls Royce of forum software. It looks nice and modern with loads of good functionality. Probably much more expensive though.

There was a massive kerfuffle years ago when the forums list was removed from the top of the main page, replaced with "topics". Users and mods warned it was a regressive step which would make it more difficult to navigate, and forums would suffer. Sure enough, they did.

This is a lot more comprehensively worse than that ; the mobile site is simply non functional. Not even "worse" but literally useless.

Functionality posters used and relied on is gone: no advanced edit on posts, no "go to latest post" button, no "my threads"...

Speed is horrific, I am regularly switching tabs waiting for boards to switch pages on a thread. What's the likelihood I don't bother coming back to it, or get distracted? Very high.

A week of downtime is enough to kill off a lot of casual users.

That coupled with the interface being broken and the site being unusably slow does not bode well.

The failure to call it on Thursday and roll back to the old setup for the weekend was an indication it was more important to go ahead rather than admit a failure. I think the failure of the in-house build years ago haunts them and they decided it's this or nothing.

And even if it does limp on, look at all the posters now listed as "legacyuser". Or thanks gone missing. That data is flat out gone. It's a bad move all round.

Does anyone know how to shut down your boards account? I tried looking it up, but since that link is now dead, I can't find it.

I've tried this new layout-it's not working for me. So I'd rather just kill my account.

😄 I'm not seeing any ads.

I mean scalable in terms of its functionality and ability to upgrade. Of course if what you say it correct then scalability in terms of needing resources won't be a problem.

Edit: Dynamic is the word I probably should've used.

I once had a post on Reddit deleted because I wasn't verified as BIPOC. There was a large discussion about Ireland on it. They wanted a picture of the colour of the skin on my arm before I could post...

I miss the old format layout